September 3, 2009 by Josh Nunn
It’s 9:30, so class just finished, but I left at 8. Another night of confusing information that would probably make sense if I’d read the text before hand, or wasn’t being taught by someone who’s thinking of examples on the fly and can’t finish a sentence before moving on to another concept.
Man! This text is oooooooold.I’m gonna just sit down tomorrow and current text be damned, read a whole bunch of chapters and just work on the half assed examples in the text I have. Hopefully that will keep me going. I can’t keep putting it off.
My next chapter is Methods, so hopefully that might answer some of my questions about when to use methods and how.
Tags: class, Coding, commodore 64, java
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March 25, 2009 by Josh Nunn
Wolfenstein, busting out of your iPhoneWhen I was 13 I was around at my mate’s place as often as I could be just to play Wolfenstein 3D on his better-than-mine system. He had colour graphics and a sound card, while my Commodore 64 only had enough grunt for side-scrolling platformers and breakout clones and my IBM clone could barely muster monochrome. Wolfenstein was the pinnacle of gaming. It was just like you were there, with your little gun waving in front of you and meals left on the floor. And B.J. Blazkowicz’s face peering out at you to remind you to keep away from big men with chain-guns. I couldn’t play it enough.
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Tags: AppStore, awesome, commodore 64, First-person shooter, iPhone, Video Games, Wolfenstein
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December 9, 2007 by Josh Nunn
Screenshot of my commodore 64 themeI loved my old Commodore 64. It had fantastically playable games, neat 16 colour graphics, and that awesome SID chip for the charmingly wonky C=64 sound. You could program on it, play on it, wait for things to load on it…
It had cartridges, it had a tape drive, it had a clunky disk drive that worked marginally faster than the tape drive. Really, it was shit compared to what we have today, but man-oh-man it still outstrips every one of the computers any true geek has ever owned since.
On Monday, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, will celebrate the C64’s 25th anniversary. CNN article on Commodore 64 anniversary
In August 2007, the Commodore 64 made it to 25 years old. And in honour of the Computer History Museum’s celebrations, I have created a Commodore 64 Wordpress theme to add to my website. If you’ve come to this page wondering why my site is all big and blue and chunky — it’s to pay respect to a truly wonderful computer.
If you’ve come here looking to get the theme yourself — let me know and I’ll see if I can make it available to download. It’s still a work-in-progress, so expect to see some changes before things finally settle and I haven’t tested it on any versions of IE. It’s a little harder to navigate, so I’ve made a menu link up there in the top right corner, so you don’t get completely lost.
I’ve made the comment areas blue too, so you can relive the joys of typing LOAD “*” ‚8,1 yourself, so go on and leave me a comment. And everyone, please be patient for the next two weeks and join me in remembering one of the best computers I’ve ever owned.
LOAD “*” ‚8,1
Tags: commodore 64, create, design, wordpress
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